Hello everybody I am now in sunny Hervey Bay (very, very, very sunny - even at 6 o'clock this morning!) having started the train journey yesterday at 9.15am and getting to my final station at 5.25am. Aaarrgghh ! Another long train journey, though the trains are somewhat cleaner than in China - especially the loos !!!!! - and the food is edible. Then an hour's bus journey from the station to Hervey Bay. It is massively hot and sunny here - so hot that even wit...

Hello everyone Just a "quickie" blog today as I still haven't had supper and I must also pack, again. I moved down to Cairns yesterday to a "charming" hostel (yes, I'm a REAL backpacker now) and spent some time sorting out train tickets and generally mooching about the seafront and shops, in a VERY relaxing manner, I might add. I had a lovely fish supper on the beach front, washed down by some spectacularly acidic Sauvignon Blanc - oh well,...

Hello everybody Well, I have been in Port Douglas for a couple of days now and it is VERY VERY humid here. If the term "sweating like a pig" was ladylike, I would use it, but dad always told me "horses sweat, men perspire and ladies feel the heat" !!!! So there we go. I'm feeling the heat like a pig. On Sunday afternoon I cuddled koalas and wallabies and kangaroos and had my lunch eaten by a white parrot-like bird with a big beak (I can't...